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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!Germany.EU.net!sunmbx.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.tu-ilmenau.de!floyd.rz.tu-ilmenau.de!pohl From: pohl@rz.tu-ilmenau.de (Jochen Pohl) Subject: Re: Using NetBSD as an NFS server? Message-ID: <1993Oct28.104018.13916@news.tu-ilmenau.de> Sender: news@news.tu-ilmenau.de (Newsserver) Nntp-Posting-Host: dali.rz.tu-ilmenau.de Organization: Technische Universitaet Ilmenau References: <29pjup$3qf@hebron.connected.com> <MYCROFT.93Oct17035645@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <andrew.750991990@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> <2a261i$19qa@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 10:40:18 GMT Lines: 32 In article <2a261i$19qa@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz>, hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) writes: > Andrew Moore (andrew@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au) wrote: > > mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > > > > >[PLEASE MAIL QUESTION TO netbsd-help@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu! THANK > > >YOU.] > > > >In article <29pjup$3qf@hebron.connected.com> > > >bouwman@hebron.connected.com (Bryan Bouwman) writes: > > > > I have two systems running NetBSD 0.9 set up on an ethernet > > > network. [...] But I can not get either one of them to be an NFS > > > server. > > > >You need to recompile the kernel with `options NFSSERVER'. > > I got this far, but now mountd dies, and coredumps leaving a core.mountd > in the root directory.... I'm going to try tonoght, exporting the > directory to everyone, instead of a single machine and see if that makes > any difference (Someone posted me and said mountd can core dump if the > exports file isn't exactly how it wants it, number of tabs etc.... > I had the same problem. mountd dies because it uses the syscall getfd(), which is only supported if the kernel is also configured as NFSCLIENT. Recompile the kernel with `options NFSSERVER,NFSCLIENT` and mountd should work. Hope this helps, Jochen